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MINISTRY: JUSTICE AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICES REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY QUESTION FOR WRITTEN REPLY PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION NO: 2655 DATE OF QUESTION PAPER: 26 AUGUST 2022 DATE OF SUBMISSION: 09 SEPTEMBER 2022 Ms A M M Weber (DA) to ask the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services: Whether, with regard to the Government’s commitment to gender sensitivity, his department included gender sensitivity into their policies and budget; if not, why not; if so, (a) how does his department (i) implement and (ii) monitor its gender sensitivity policy and/or programmes and (b) what total number of (i) legal practitioners, (ii) magistrates and (iii) maintenance officers are fully trained and knowledgeable on the Maintenance Act, Act 99 of 1998?
NW3171E 1 | P a g e REPLY: (a) (i) and (ii) Yes, the Department has included gender sensitivity into its policies and budget.

Further, the Department has developed Gender Indicators/Analysis Tools for Finance, HR, Supply Chain Management and the generic one for other Branches that assist them in the implementation and monitoring of the gender sensitivity policies and /or programmes.
These Gender Indicators are used as guiding tools by different Branches within the Department on how to include gender sensitivity into their policies and/or programmes.

Furthermore, the Gender Directorate monitors the implementation of the policies and programmes of the Department.

(b) (i) The application of the Maintenance Act is covered in terms of training on Marriage and Divorce for all PVT candidates, both the PVT Schools and those in PVT contracts.
For the past four (4) years, the numbers are tabulated below: 2022 (to date) 2021 2020 2019 4 010 4 303 4 014 4 335 Additionally, for practitioners, this is also covered in the training of Marriage, Divorce and Child Law seminars, which is discretionary.

2022 [As at July 2022] 130 2021 2020 2019 272 135 168 (iii) Maintenance officers are fully trained and knowledgeable on the Maintenance Act, Act 99 of 1998?
2 | P a g e The Department do make provisioning to fund training programmes that address various sets of skills.

These sets of skills encompass core competencies, scarce & critical skills and/or transversal skills.

Maintenance Officers falls within core competencies, scarce & critical skills of the Department.
The table below illustrate the total number of Maintenance Officer trained per programme: Name of the Programme Number of Maintenance Officers Period a) Training on the 3 African Females, 3 African 1 April to Maintenance Act 99 of Males, 1 Coloured Female, and 2 August 2022 1998 Coloured Males.

Total: Nine (9) b) Records Management 1 African Male.

Total: One (1) c) TransUnion 1 African Female, 3 African Males, and 2 Coloured Females.
Total: Six (6) d) Departmental Induction 1 African Male and 1 Coloured Female.

Total: Two (2) e) Anti-Corruption and 1 African Female.

fraud Total: One (1) f) Sexual harassment 1 African Male and 1 Coloured 1 April to policy and procedure Female.

August 2022 g) Ethics in the workplace 1 African Male and 1 Coloured Total: Two (2) Female.
Total: Two (2) h) Labour Relations 1 African Male Total: One (1) 3 | P a g e Name of the Programme Number of Maintenance Officers Period i) Grievance and 2 African Male disciplinary procedure Total: Two (2) j) Employee Assistance 3 African Females, and 4 African Programme Males.

Total: Seven (7) k) Service Excellence 1 African Female and 1 African Male Total: Two (2) l) Maintenance Clerks and 6 African Females, 4 African Officers Training Males, 9 Coloured Females, and 4 Coloured Males.
Total: Twenty-three (23) m) Domestic Violence Act 1 Coloured Female Workshop Total: 1 (One) n) ICMS Domestic Violence 1 African Female Total: One (1) o) ICMS Maintenance 1 African Female Total: One (1) p) Crafting of Performance 1 African Male Agreement GRAND TOTAL Total: One (1) Sixty One (61) On annual basis, the Department develops the Workplace Skills Plan (WSP), and the training for Departmental officials are implemented and/or coordinated throughout the specified financial year in line with the WSP.
Furthermore, the annual training report is compiled to verify the implemented training against the WSP.

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